Is Anything Faster Than The Speed Of Light?

The comments on this particular video are very spirited as expected.

Commenter MT had this to say:

Here’s a question that may help. I think we are asking the wrong questions. Y asking how to reach the speed of light. The first thing we should ask should be, how does light gain its speed? I mean photons have mass, and they seem to be able to reach this, “speed limit” so simply. What forces are making the photons move so quickly? And if we can find out what causes that force, maybe we could reach that speed as well.

Commenter JV had this to say in response:

If you haven’t heard about inertial frames you know nothing about relativity and you don’t understand any of the concepts you are talking about, Let me teach you one thing, the cosmic speed limit has nothing to do with light, you need to study Lorentz and Maxwell first, all massless particles move at the same speed which happens to be “c” people call it speed of light because that’s what we see, it is really called speed of causality and it was predicted a long time ago, measuring the speed of light was a way of checking that what was predicted was true.

This is a very interesting debate and feel free to comment with your thoughts.



79 Comments

  1. Jason Good said:

    If you warp space you can travel faster than light. Also logic tells you that if u want to travel the universe, even at the speed of light its just not feasible. So there is obviously another way that is quicker than light

  2. Ryan Herrington said:

    Exactly my point Jason Good.. light isnt the fastest thing out there. Light is like a cheetah or a peregrine falcon.. they may be the fastest creatures on this planet.. but they arent the fastest things on this planet. Same applies to light, measurably light me be the fastest thing we can observe but it isnt the fastest. Theres stil so much we dont even know yet.

  3. Jason Good said:

    I guess space warp is theory altho i believe they already have the tech but the negative mass not interacting with mass is fact…for example anti matter doesnt interact with matter

  4. Marcelo Hernandez said:

    Forgive the comedy, its just that I understand to me, even science is relative to our own existance , you can learn the wrong thing just by listening, I met one guy that swore up and down that life came from an asteroid, ALL THE WATER on earth came from an asteroid, it sounded to me like hey that sounds a lot like what God would did ” Bam I make water” , but in reality I believe the cooling and heating and nuclear reactions and so fourth blah blah, you already know, the point is this guy believed that so I don’t appreciate theory, until I KNOW it can’t be proven wrong

  5. Marcelo Hernandez said:

    Isn’t it possible you can destroy EVERYTHING by crossing that boundary? I mean like causing a cosmic explosion? Or implosion of ALL energy? Just like my theory on time travel wouldn’t you have to control every and all atoms and run them all exactly backward? Simultaneously? And if you could technically do that, why the hell would you waste your time going back when you have the power to pretty much do whatever you want. . . . and also we would have already seen something or someone from the future, which would have come back and ended someone else that has achieved it so that not everyone can do it. . . . . ponder ponder ponder. . . .

  6. Jason Good said:

    If we had the tech to go back in time, do you really think the gov would just let anyone go back in time? No and they would hide the technology from the public just like they do everything else. Research negative mass it will be easier to understand. For example u can have an atom and the sum of the atom and its parts weigh less than the atom itself. Google that stuff

  7. Marcelo Hernandez said:

    Yes I believe the government would, but doubt they succeeded . . . . and no, the internet lies. . . . . but in the spirit of Socrates, answers are found by regular public debate and rebuttal . . . . even if I have to hit someone in the EYE to find answers!! 🙂

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